This is quite emotionally moving & one of the better crime movies. Again Mr. Hardy delivers an outstanding performance & he is the main reason why things work out so well. On the other hand Mr. Gandolfini is just doing another Soprano; Mrs. Rapace & Mr. Schoenaerts are not convincing and also the rest of the supporting cast is weak. Bob couldn't do it all alone.

"There are some sins you commit that you cant come back from no matter how hard you try... Its like the devil is waiting for your body to quit. Because he knows that he already owns your soul. And then, I think, maybe, you know, there is no devil. You die, and God, He says: Nah, you cant come in. You have to leave now. You have to leave and go away and you have to be alone. You have to be alone forever."

Yes, it's very much a genre film which offers little that hasn't been done before. But there are solid performances from a great cast, which held my attention the whole way through. I could watch Gandolfini all day....

Nice modern noir with tough guy, femme fatale, wet street, dark place, sneaky cop and underworld evils. Tom Hardy must have watched some of 30s Gary Cooper to master the murmurs. By the way, the Japanese title of this is "Crime Heat". Piss poor. They never get the point. Crime is not heated. Ignorant rendering is everywhere in this country.

Roskam does a good job of making Tom Hardy's character one we can sympathize with, even though we shouldn't; overall it's kind of forgettable because of the adherence to the staples of the crime drama genre. The story's just okay.